English Quotes

She is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlyn’s Isle of Gramarye
Where you and I will far,
When Shall I be dead and rid
Of the wrong my father did?
How long, low long, till spade and hearse
Put to sleep my mother’s curse?,
‘Nay,’ said Sir Lancelot, ‘…for once shamed may never be recovered’

‘I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little attic,and you have to stock it with furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but tools which may help in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones